Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast!

With Xuan Zi's speed, they quickly reached the outskirts of Star Dou Forest.

During this time, Ye Chen had actually been under observation every day.

Although he went to Mu En's place every day to study, aside from some simple basic knowledge and meditation, he had not undergone any combat training.

In his previous life, he had been an intellectual who firmly believed that brains were more useful than fists.

Mainly because he had been too lazy. Though he enjoyed watching all kinds of fighting videos, he had never learned any form of martial arts.

In other words, although Ye Chen possessed Soul Power now, he had no means of attack or combat experience whatsoever.

Though his two Martial Souls were powerful, he only roughly knew their origins and legends so far. As for what abilities they possessed, he would need to slowly explore them through future cultivation.

So, rather tragically, he needed an elder's help to obtain his first soul ring.

Still, after his Martial Soul Awakening, there had been one change.

"Don't transmigrators in fantasy novels usually get some kind of cheat right from the start, like a system or cultivation technique? Why do I have nothing?"

Ye Chen looked up at the sky and thought helplessly.

But with two great Martial Souls, he was already quite satisfied. Strength cultivated by oneself was the most reliable.

"Xiao Chen, once we enter Star Dou Forest, you must stay by my side. Do not run around, understand? Within this dense forest are existences that even I greatly fear."

Xuan Zi looked at Ye Chen and warned him sternly.

"Got it!" Ye Chen did not argue with Xuan Zi. It was simply in his nature; he knew when he could relax and joke around.

Likewise, he knew when he needed to be serious.

Although this was only the outer region, it was still possible that those terrifying existences from the core area might occasionally venture out.

Moreover, Xuan Zi clearly remembered a time when he had led a team here to hunt soul rings for Inner Court students.

Because of his negligence, the result...

Thus, the old man and the child began searching through the outskirts of Star Dou Forest.

According to what Mu En had said before, for Ye Chen's first soul ring, it would be best if they could find a Plant Soul Beast with the Light Attribute and an appropriate cultivation age.

Since the Fusang Divine Tree had originally been a plant, a Plant Soul Beast would naturally be the most compatible.

However, Plant Soul Beasts were already scarce to begin with, and with the additional requirement of the Light Attribute, suitable ones were exceedingly difficult to find.

So if they truly could not find one, they could settle for a Light Attribute Soul Beast of another kind.

If even that proved impossible, then they could only choose a Fire Attribute Soul Beast.

Even now, Mu En still could not make sense of it.

Ye Chen's Martial Soul was clearly a plant, so why did it possess the Ultimate Fire Attribute?

In all of Douluo Continent, only Ye Chen could somewhat guess the reason.

Although Fusang was a woody plant, it was also the place that bore the sun.

Legend had it that ten suns, transformed from Three-legged Golden Crows, rested upon the Fusang Divine Tree and took turns bringing light to the earth according to the ancient ten Heavenly Stems.

The flames possessed by the Golden Crows were the True Sun Fire, the foremost among the legendary ten divine fires!

Although there was not even a trace of a Three-legged Golden Crow in sight, the Ultimate Fire Attribute was surely connected to this somehow.

Light Attribute Plant Soul Beasts were incredibly rare, even rarer than Soul Beasts with the Mental Attribute.

After searching for nearly a full day, the two of them had not found a single one in the outer region.

As night slowly descended from the horizon, Xuan Zi used Soul Power to dry the damp ground and lit a bonfire.

"Do we really have to go deeper? But if we go any farther in, the Soul Beasts we find will definitely exceed the limit of what you can bear, Xiao Chen." Xuan Zi sat cross-legged against a large tree and spoke helplessly.

His appearance was as slovenly as ever, as though not the slightest thing had changed since Ye Chen first met him.

"Roar!"

Just as Ye Chen heard Xuan Zi's words and sank into thought, a beast's roar rang out in the distance.

They both turned at once and looked toward the source of the sound.

The sky had already grown very dark, with only the clouds at the horizon still reflecting the sun's final glimmer of light.

Even so, Ye Chen could still sense a powerful Light Attribute element spreading from the direction of the roar.

He possessed the Ultimate Light Martial Soul, so his perception of light elements was even sharper than Xuan Zi's.

"Drunkard Grandpa, it's a Light Attribute Soul Beast!" Ye Chen made his judgment immediately, his heart tightening.

"Is that so? I wonder whether it's suitable. If it is, we can make do with it. Light Attribute Plant Soul Beasts are simply too rare!" Xuan Zi said thoughtfully, while a few ideas surfaced in his mind.

From this far away, I couldn't even determine what attribute that Soul Beast had. How did Xiao Chen know?

It was only because that Soul Beast happened to possess the light attribute. Had it been an attribute Ye Chen did not possess, he would not have been able to sense it.

The Ultimate Light Ye Chen possessed seemed to be the ancestor of all light attributes, giving him an extremely strong perception of elements of the same kind.

In the brief time they had been talking, the light elements around them had grown denser. A dazzling figure charged toward them at astonishing speed.

Xuan Zi's pupils contracted as he recognized the Soul Beast's name—the Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast!

Although its name contained the word "dragon," it looked more like a tiger-type Soul Beast and possessed a pair of enormous fangs.

Its body normally displayed a camouflage coloration, but once it entered a combat state, that camouflage turned into dazzling colors like an aurora, hence its name.

After an Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast cultivated for ten thousand years, its strength could even rival that of other Soul Beasts with fifty thousand years of cultivation. It could be said to stand at the top of the food chain.

This kind of Soul Beast was exceptionally rare. The Soul Master world outside had once even believed it extinct, yet here it was again.

What made Xuan Zi regretful was that this Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast had nearly fifteen hundred years of cultivation. Otherwise, it would have been an excellent choice for Ye Chen's first soul ring.

At the same time, a trace of confusion arose in Xuan Zi's mind.

Logically, to avoid being disturbed by Soul Beasts, Xuan Zi had just released his pressure over a certain area. No Soul Beast should have dared to blindly rush over.

Yet this Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast seemed utterly heedless as it charged straight at them.

Even Ye Chen could sense the terror radiating from its aura, as though it were being pursued by something dreadful.

And as it drew closer, Ye Chen discovered a huge wound on its abdomen. Blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed out like a stream.

But in the outskirts of Star Dou Forest, what could wound a top-tier Soul Beast capable of dominating this area so badly?

And what could frighten it so terribly?